HOARDING

With illegal hoardings in Bengaluru amounting to at least four times more than legal ones, the local corporators have passed a resolution to remove all hoardings in the city. Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagar Palike Commissioner M Lakshminarayana said, "Its more nuisance to us than income. We get some 20 crores that's...

Mumbai: Ahead of the Maharashtra assembly elections of October 15, the Bombay High Court on Tuesday asked all the municipal corporations and councils to conduct a special drive to remove illegal hoardings and banners.
The division bench headed by Justice Abhay Oka said the drive...

New Delhi: Attributing rise in inflation partly to withholding of food stocks by traders, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday said the Centre is committed to ease supply side bottlenecks and has also asked states to take firm measures against hoarders to check speculation.
"The Government is seized of the matter...

Soon after the general elections were announced, hundreds of billboards promoting Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav put up across the length and breadth of Uttar Pradesh were dismantled in a tearing hurry.
All of them carried a beaming face of the 41-year-old chief minister and details of all the good work his...

Observing that the law prohibiting and punishing the defacing of public roads was quite clear but its implementation left much to be desired, the Bombay High Court on Friday directed all the municipal corporations in Maharashtra to remove illegal hoardings, banners and posters by March 21.
The division bench of Justices...

Rajasthan sand truck operators on Wednesday appealed to the state government to exempt sand from the purview of a newly introduced legislation which empowers the district collectors to fix a rate for certain consumers' commodities to check black marketing.
Under the new Act, district collectors have been authorised to decide rates...

New Delhi: Even though Food Minister KV Thomas has assured that the onion prices will be controlled in the next 10 days, people are in no mood to take his opinion seriously. That's why social networks continue to be flooded with jokes, caustic remarks and scathing comments against the soaring...

Onion crisis has also brought tears in the eyes of Alwar residents in Rajasthan. It is believed that cartelisation of the local vendors and the illadvise given by them to the farmers to limit the supply is the reason behind the spiralling onion prices.
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New Delhi: Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has once again said that the rise in onion prices is just temporary and that he is in fact fearing a drastic fall in onion prices in the coming days when new supplies arrive. "It will take another two to three weeks when a...

New Delhi: Despite a sharp drop in onion prices at the wholesale markets, retail prices in most cities continue to hover around the Rs 100mark. Food Minister KV Thomas will meet Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Thursday to discuss the options before the government.
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit will...

Rising onion prices continue to pinch common man. People are saying there is no end to onion cries as prices are increasing every day. On Tuesday onion prices was Rs 80 per/kg and on Wednesday the prices rised to Rs 110 per/kg. Meanwhile, everyone is desperately waiting for the production...

Another hike in prices of onions has hit the people badly and it was very much evident as most of them have said that they have stopped buying it. The steep spurt in onion prices have thrown household budgets out of balance and the government has failed to give any...

Nashik: While suppliers blamed a shortfall in production for rising onion prices, a CNNIBN investigation has now exposed the reason behind the unprecedented crisis. While traders made huge profits by hoarding onions, farmers too added to consumer woes by holding back the produce.
Th onion was never so elusive. It...

New Delhi: As onion prices soar, the Centre has said that state governments must check hoarding. "The state governments will have to take action against hoarders and speculators. The government has already controlled exports," Food Minister KV Thomas told CNN-IBN.
He also said that onion prices are will stabilise by...

Amid efforts to convince top BJP leaders on declaring Narendra Modi as party's prime ministerial candidate ahead of general elections, Bihar unit of the party has prominently shown the Gujarat Chief Minister in hoardings for its next month's 'Hunkar Rally' to be held in Patna.
In one set of four-page hoardings,...

Union minister Jitin Prasad on Saturday said controlling price rise was also the responsibility of the state government which should instruct its officials to check hoarding and blackmarketing. "It is also the responsibility of the state government to check price spiral," said the minister of State for Human Resource Development...

New Delhi: In trying times for household budgets, onion prices have skyrocketed sending budgets out of control. The average wholesale price of onion has more than doubled since the beginning of this month. It's selling between Rs 70 and Rs 80 rupees per kg.
Hoarding has led to a 25...

New Delhi: Delhi Lokayukta Manmohan Sarin on Wednesday issued notice to Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and her Transport Minister Ramakant Goswami for putting up their posters in public places.
He also sought an explanation from the duo why an inquiry should not be initiated against them.
SK Saxena, director of NGO Nispaksh,...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has issued notice to Centre and State governments on a plea seeking its direction to restrain them for spending public money on glorifying political leaders through advertisements on their birth and death anniversaries. A bench of justices CK Prasad and VG Gowda granted four weeks...

Madurai: The continuing crackdown against illegal quarrying in the region has, as on Monday, unearthed granite blocks estimated to be worth Rs 8,000 crore in quarries at Keelavalavu and Keelaiyur. Officials of the district administration have assessed 45,730 granite blocks in these quarries till date.
These officials were part of...

Hyderabad: In the wake of severe power shortage in the State, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has cracked the whip on advertising agencies to ensure judicious usage of available power. The advertising agencies within the city limits were ordered not to illuminate hoardings from Saturday evening until further instructions.
GHMC...

New York: Apple Inc. said it will announce the outcome of its internal discussion concerning its enormous cash balance on Monday morning.
Analysts expect Apple to institute a dividend. It can easily afford one, since it had $97.6 billion in cash and securities at the end of last year. That would...

New Delhi: In a tragic incident, an 8yearold boy travelling by his school bus lost his life on Thursday when his head hit a hoarding which was dangling from an electric pole in Central Mumbai.
Viraj had moved his head out to wave at his friends. He was taken to the...

Mumbai: Onion prices have crashed at Lasalgaon, Nashiks wholesale market due to sudden increase in the supply. Wholesale onion prices have plummetted to Rs 13 a kg in Lasalgaon.
On Saturday morning average quality onion price at Lasalgaon was Rs 2600 per quintal (Rs 26 per kg). On Monday, it came...

New Delhi: Raids seem to be in vogue these days. In a frantic attempt by the government to tackle inflation, the Income Tax department today conducted raids on wholesale traders across the country
Runway away onion prices have spooked the government so much that it ordered a probe on a...

New Delhi: Onion prices have started to come down after the freak surge earlier in the week. While many were blaming hoarding as the cause for the sudden spurt in price rise, CNNIBN did a reality check and found that a day after the raids across New Delhi, traders are...

Mumbai: Spiraling onion prices have brought tears to the eyes, quite literally. At Mumbai's biggest wholesale market, CNNIBN peels off the murky layers of mystery and manipulation around the onion price hike.
While the traders at the APMC market were reluctant to talk, CNNIBN captured a market transporter on a hidden...